HashiCorp

Working across infrastructure teams, product engineering teams, security teams, data teams, compliance teams, and more to level up the company's security and compliance postures as well as infrastructure quality.

Staff Technical Program Manager: Infrastructure, Security, Compliance

- (Delivered 2024 Q1) Successful delivery of Disaster Recovery capabilities across multiple AWS regions, boosting cloud platform Reliability by achieving internal targeted measurements of RTO and RPO (scaled execution across ~12 engineering teams / ~50 engineers over the course of 12 months)
- (Delivered 2024 Q1) Successful delivery of Audit Logging improvements to Beta with identity log streaming to desired SIEM destination (~3 engineering teams and collaboration with non-engineering groups such as product education and marketing)
- Actively driving PCI Compliance for 2 of HashiCorp's product lines, requiring scaled collaboration across Security, Compliance, Product, and multiple engineering teams.

Senior Technical Program Manager: Infrastructure

Blue Jay Digital, LLC

Owner and creator of Blue Jay Digital. I created this LLC as a way to create digital goods and services to help others move forward in their own professional journey.

Currently, this is being done via:
- A course on Technical Program Management, hosted on Educative.io
- A series of YouTube videos teaching the basics of R and R-Studio for data analytics

Owner

Educative, Inc.

Responsible for end-to-end text-based course creation.
- Defined course curriculum and objectives
- Segmented course into 13 major modules
- Wrote 12 hours of content on the topics of program management, leadership, and system design technical skills 
- Provided 61 illustrations

(https://www.educative.io/courses/technical-program-management-a-practitioners-guide)
- Partnered with Educative.io for editing

Author

Twitter

- Driving data privacy program involving 30+ teams across multiple organizations including product, engineering, info-sec, and legal
- Driving a critical path program to improve the privacy controls of advertisers

Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Privacy

- Led various engineering divestiture activities through MoPub sale to AppLovin ($1B deal) across 5 cross-functional domains engineering, product, legal, finance, and audit.
- Drove key process changes to strategic planning and tactical execution for MoPub's product development pipeline and cross-functional collaboration across 5 teams (60 engineers) and 8 product managers
- Drove data privacy program involving 30+ teams across multiple organizations including product, engineering, info-sec, and legal

Technical Program Manager II, Product

ExxonMobil

- Led a team of ~four developers to design, build, and support 15 enterprise-scale API’s which collectively receive over one million requests per day and enable a portfolio of applications to drive bottom-line business value of ~35mil/year
- Collaborated & coordinated across six various project teams to identify business objectives, customer pain-points, and consulted on API solutions
- Coached team on Scrum & Kanban principles/practices to increase speed of project delivery and improve response time to support incidents
- Created and drove roadmap for API support team improvements such as enhanced monitoring, improved log management, analysis of API consumption data, and infrastructure updates for greater availability and performance
- Managed a headcount budget for contractor costs throughout 2019

API Technical Product Manager

- Designed and developed multiple enterprise scale API’s (MuleSoft) using best practice architectural guidelines for API design and implementation
- Co-Created ExxonMobil’s Houston-based API developer community to encourage collaboration across business units
- Designed and created internal website (Angular Front-end, Sharepoint Backend) for new-hire organization detailing events, information, and opportunities

API Software Engineer

- Supported a competitive intelligence application for cross-functional business users by diagnosing issues, discovering root cause, and implementing solutions
- Improved product delivery & support processes by leading team through value stream mapping and customer journey mapping
- Coordinated all cyber security vulnerability assessments and remediation efforts on all systems for parent organization of ~200 people

Advanced Information Systems Analyst

Business intelligence automation and cutting-edge technology product evaluation.

Analytics Intern

Brigham Young University

Learn to extract, transform, load data from existing MySQL to new Graph Database (OrientDB).
Create test scripts to prove accuracy of migrated data against old database.
Design a web-interface to access information from new database.

Database Developer/Research Assistant

Goldman Sachs

Automated a 4 week process to become a 24 hour process.
Created/validated designs against user stories with clients to streamline process and reduce human error.
Led the intern development team by taking the role of middle-ware & backend engineer using Java.

Intern - Technology Analyst/Developer

Created an implementation plan to upgrade system-wide physical security system software
Removed impediments for developers as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment
Prioritized/managed the backlog & gathered business requirements as a Product Manager

IT Project Manager

Developed and maintained internal managerial web-apps using AngularJS/HTML/CSS.
Worked cohesively in a Scrum team to effectively build solutions and meet deadlines.

Junior Front-End Web-Developer

Manually tested 8+ internal software products for 4 different development teams.
Executed automation test-scripts on web-apps with Ruby & Selenium Web-driver.
Learned and pioneered stress-testing with Apache Jmeter on internal servers and web-apps.

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Academy for Creating Enterprise

The Microenterprise Education Initiative (MEI) provides individual business owners in emerging and frontier markets personalized, online business and leadership coaching. I work as a coach with current clients in Africa. I also work with the software team as a UI Analyst to help deliver the most value through the software that is developed.

Business Coach & UI Analyst

Missionary Training Center

Trained 40+ groups on effective interpersonal communication skills, various teaching methods & concepts, and simplifying a broad and deep message to be concise. I was implemented as a lead teacher 4 times. I was a resource for other teachings to assist in helping missionaries understand and practice difficult teaching concepts.

Teacher

Technical Program Management and Leadership

Technical Program Management. Its the craft of solving problems that come from scaled execution of strategically important initiatives.

That's a mouth-full! But it just boils down to the fact that TPM's get big complex things done.

Having spent a decade in various tech roles, I am able to successfully navigate the complex interdependencies of large initiatives. I practice the core skills of planning, stakeholder management, risk management, communication management, dependency management, system design, and leadership.

These can all be summed up in what I call The TPM Craft Framework: Program Management, Technical Versatility, and Leadership. In my newsletter (The TPM Craft), I regularly dive deep into those topics.

Outside of my 9-5 I spend time with my family, read books, write, exercise, watch movies....etc. No major special hobbies, mostly just family time.

I may not know everything, but I can learn anything.

James Dayhuff

Celonis

Build a Technical Program Management (TPM) team from scratch across Engineering since Jan 2022

Technical Program Management Lead

Building out a program management team from scratch by growing from 0 to 5 PgMs
• Established a standardized program and project management framework
• Executed programs across Product & Engineering organisation (Vulnerability Management, Jira Cloud Migration, Open Source Software, Patent Framework, Platform reliability, customer migration)
• Maintained and updated controls to achieve continuous retention of SOC2 Type 1/2, ISO9001, ISO27001, and ISO 27701
• Leading and executing Technology & Product Due Diligence

Head Of Program Management Office

• Reporting directly to the CTO and Co-Founder
• Member and decision maker in the Product & Engineering Leadership team
• Setting up standards for people operations (hiring, budgeting), software development life cycle (SDLC), • Program Management Office (grow a team from 0 to 5 PgMs) to double the Product & Engineering organisation YoY
• Leading M&A due diligence and post-acquisition integration
• Building a demo platform for the go-to-market team for central demo availability from scratch called TryCelonis (now known as Celonis Gallery)
• Leading roadmap alignment and process across Product & Engineering and presenting it to customers
• Established controls based on TSCs to achieve ISO 9001, ISO 27001, SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2. Celonis is the first process mining vendor to achieve SOC2 Type 2
• Developing and executing strategic customer programs for co-innovation (Siemens, LyondellBasell, Citibank)
• Hosting and speaking at customer exchange workshops in Europe and North America
• Leading product & engineering involvement for positioning Celonis in Analyst report as leader in the Gartner Market Guide for Process Mining, Everest Group PEAK Matrix, NelsonHall, or Forrester. Foundational for the 2023 published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Tools.

Senior Engineering Operations Officer

Engineering Operations Officer

Product Management Lead for Process Analytics, Celonis 4, and PQL Engine

• Driving strategy and roadmap for all product areas with a focus on bringing solutions to the Celonis Intelligent Business Cloud
• Scaling, growing, and advising the growing Product Management Team incl. onboarding of new product managers
• Act as the voice of the customer deriving requirements, user stories to work with Software Engineers for Implementation and Quality Assurance for high product quality
• Leading the SAP Premium Qualification for Celonis Process Mining 4 successfully
• Continuously innovated and improved the core Process Mining components such as Process Explorer, Variant Explorer, Conformance Checker and adding other visualization components
• Product Management and roll-out of the Stateless Query Engine (highly scalable PQL Engine to drive the IBC)
• Keynote Preparation for the Celosphere 2019
• Speaker at Celosphere 2019
• Define product vision and strategy for key product areas and expand the product portfolio
• Working on product requirements with customers from the US market to address process mining requirements
• Presenting externally on Product representative for Customer Exchange workshops in EMEA & US
• Working with Solution Engineering, Go-to-Market on ensuring successful roll-outs of the first Cloud customers
• Driving customer success by working with customers such as ABB, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, 3M, Airbus

Senior Product Manager

• Serving as one of the first Product Managers @Celonis
• Core Team member in building the world-first Process Mining cloud solution - the Celonis Intelligent Business Cloud (IBC)
• Product Management for Process Analytics and Celonis 4
• Building product management from 4 to 20 product managers
• Act as the voice of the customer deriving requirements, user stories to work with Software Engineers for Implementation and Quality Assurance for high product quality
• Continuously innovated and improved the core Process Mining components such as Process Explorer, Variant Explorer, Conformance Checker
• Define product vision and strategy for key product areas and expand the product portfolio
• Presenting externally on Product representative for Customer Exchange workshops in EMEA & US
• Working with Solution Engineering, Go-to-Market on ensuring successful roll-outs of the first Cloud customers
• Driving customer success by working with customers such as ABB, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, 3M, Airbus

Product Manager

Had the pleasure of starting to work within a dedicated team of 15+ Solution Engineers in EMEA and contributing with data science expertise (Python) and contributing to customer pre-sales projects

Data Scientist | Solution Engineering

oazo

• Product & Design
• Business Development

Oazo makes home appliances smart! Our retro-fit and plug’n’play IoT sensor monitors in real-time voltage and current profiles of any electrical device and deduces the corresponding operational states. This information is transmitted to our cloud platform where the data is aggregated, analyzed and visualized. Beside tracking normal operational states we track also anomalies in the raw profiles, and can with mean of AI monitor the state-of-health and enable predictive maintenance.

--> Check out our first use case "coffee machines" and the connect products.

Co-Founder

The Linde Group

• Setup of analysis and top-management reporting tools for a group-wide organizational restructuring
• Quarterly reporting for the Linde HPO program (High Performance Organization) and monthly reporting for a temporary project
• Conduction of internal, global trainings

Working Student

ABuBu - Friends of Mountains

• Business Development & Product Design @ABuBu - Friends of Mountains: ethical and environmental friendly produced sportswear and textiles

Business Development

KONUX

Delivering a project thesis on the "Market analysis for innovative opto-electronic sensors" within a young and driven startup from Munich - Konux.

Project Study

Technische Universität München

Student Assistant at Institute of Automation and Information Systems and full supervision of the practical course "Simulation Technology"

» The practical course on simulation technology provides experiences in modeling and simulation of technical products and processes
» Used tools: Matlab | Simulink | Stateflow

Student Assistant

Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V.

Responsible for development and refinement of complex 3D models in CATIA V5 and leading a project on a flexible seat concept for the Ce-Liner to increase boarding processes

» Member of interdisciplinary design research project "Ce-Liner" (concept study for a potentially emission-free short-range transport aircraft) with focus on innovative cabin design 
» Assistance in projects with other aerospace companies
» Development of complex 3D models using CATIA V5
» Leading the development of a flexible seat concept for the Ce-Liner potentially speeding up the boarding process by temporarily providing additional aisle space.

Airbus Group

Internship with focus on aircraft cabin innovation including trend & market analysis

» Internship at the department Cabin Product Strategy & Concepts at the Airbus factory HH-Finkenwerder
» Trend and Market Analysis | Cross-Industrie Studies | Competitive Monitoring | Study within the area of airlines and environmental issues

Internship Trainee

Always climb a mountain and challenge yourself - and never forget to reward yourself with a nice view or good people around you. 

When I was a kid, I stood in the backyard of my parents house in the countryside of Bavaria observing the sky and waiting for F-16 from the military passing by. 

With 21, I started studying aerospace engineering and focused on aircraft design and lightweight structures. During this time, I further developed my passion for future concept, innovative products and thinking outside the box, especially conceptualizing problems differently ("sideward retractable aircraft seat"). My focus was to challenge myself in looking at sustainability in the future aircraft concepts and into managerial processes. 

My subsequent studies at TUM School of Management opened up new ways of thinking and following more my passion for innovation combined with management. In the last years I have worked in startups and large international companies and gained experience in solving realworld problems by bringing in my passion in the intersection of strategy and technology. I am always self-motivated, optimistic and always fully committed to my projects. Creating something in a team is always my highest priority, listening to other ideas and finding solutions to impossible problems - I'm in.

Besides my working committment I enjoy taking my paraglider to the mountains and enjoy the nature while combining concentrated search for thermals with feeling free like a bird. Both, winter and summer nature provides me a place to recover and leave daily business behind. Sailing with friends, enjoying backcountry skiing or just hiking refuels my energy reserves.

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